Articles about Vulcan Capital

Late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan spins off VC group with new name, broader investor base

Vulcan Capital, the venture capital group founded in 2003 as an internal division of Paul Allen’s Seattle-based Vulcan Inc. holding… Read More

With pandemic taking a toll on mental health, Joon Care raises $3.5M to help teens and young adults

The pandemic is taking a toll on everyone, but teens in particular are seeing increased anxiety and depression. Joon Care… Read More

Seattle investor who worked — and rocked — with Paul Allen goes viral with his cover of a grunge hit

Steve Hall thinks Paul Allen would have gotten a kick out of his viral music sensation. Hall, a longtime venture… Read More

Vulcan Capital backs computer vision startup AI.Reverie and sports game maker Nifty Games

Seattle-based Vulcan Capital made two investments this week, backing computer vision startup AI.Reverie and mobile game developer Nifty Games. Vulcan… Read More

Extra cheese, please: Restaurant tech startup Picnic lands $5M for pizza robot

Seattle startup Picnic, which makes robots for the restaurant industry, raised $5 million in a seed round led by Creative… Read More

A year after Paul Allen’s death, sources say Vulcan holding company is cutting jobs

Vulcan Inc., the holding company created by the late Seattle billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is in the… Read More

‘Our biggest competitor is paper’: Mapping startup Unearth lands $7M from Vulcan and Madrona

Unearth Technologies is front-and-center on the map of the Seattle startup scene. The company, which aims to simplify geographic information… Read More

Nomad Go raises $2.7M to help brick-and-mortar businesses use AI to level field against online retail

Brick-and-mortar businesses are already up against the wall when it comes to competing against the technology that fuels online competitors.… Read More

Vulcan Capital opens first international office in Singapore to invest $100M in Southeast Asia startups

Vulcan Capital, the invest arm of the late Paul Allen, opened its first international office in Singapore to invest in… Read More

Tech Moves: Expedia hires chief people officer; Xnor snags ex-Google engineer; Bsquare names new CEO; and more

—Expedia has a new chief people officer in Archana Singh, who will head up the organization’s human resources efforts. Singh… Read More

Vulcan Capital invests in Fortnite creator Epic Games as part of epic $1.25B round

Epic Games, creator of the wildly popular battle royale game Fortnite, has raised a massive $1.25 billion funding round, and… Read More

Social sales-leads startup Socedo closing amid Twitter changes; engineering team joins Azuqua

Seattle-based social media sales intelligence firm Socedo is shutting down next month, and its four-person engineering team will join Azuqua,… Read More

Vulcan Capital among investors in CTRL-Labs, a startup with a unique brain-computer interface

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital is among those raising an interested hand over a 3-year-old startup called CTRL-Labs, makers of a… Read More

Make.tv raises $8.5M round led by Voyager for its cloud-based video management software

Microsoft Ventures, Vulcan Capital, and Arnold Ventures are joining initial investor Voyager Capital in pumping $8.5 million into Make.tv, a… Read More

Paul Allen jumps into healthy meal delivery, backs organic meal kit startup Sun Basket

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital is taking a step outside the box, investing for a second time in the San Francisco-based organic… Read More

Peach raises $8M to deliver lunch, will expand service to Boston and Washington D.C.

Peach has nailed down a successful formula for delivering lunch to office workers in places like Seattle and San Diego. Now, the… Read More

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen looks to rock the vote, sinks $40 million in online voting company

Scytl, a Barcelona-based online voting company, announced today that it received a $40 million investment from Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital… Read More

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital invests $30M in car-buying advisor TrueCar.com

Paul Allen’s investment arm Vulcan Capital today announced it is investing $30 million in TrueCar.com, an eight-year-old company that has… Read More

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital expanding to Silicon Valley

Updated with details of the new office’s leader. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s investment arm, Vulcan Capital, plans to open a… Read More